Question

Two regular 6-sided dice are tossed. Compute the probability that the sum of the pips on the upward faces of the 2 dice is the following. (See the figure below for thesample space of this experiment. Enter your probability as a fraction.)

Answer 1

Given:

Total sample space, n(s)=36.

To find the probability that the sum of the pips is 6 on the upward faces of the 2 dice:

A be an event of getting the sum as 6.

n(A)=5

Hence, the probability that the sum of the pips 6 is,

$\begin{gathered} P(A)=\frac{n(A)}{n(S)} \\ =\frac{5}{36} \end{gathered}$

Hence, the answer is,

$\frac{5}{36}$